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枋

fāng

Character

What 枋 means

1. Santalum album
2. square wooden pillar

Words containing 枋

• 苏枋sū fāngsappanwood (Caesalpinia sappan)
• 苏枋木sū fāng mùsappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine

Characters built on 方

These share the phonetic component 方 (fāng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 房fánghouse; room; branch of an extended family
• 放fàngto put; to place; to release
• 防fángto protect; to defend; to guard against
• 访fǎng(bound form) to seek by inquiry; (bound form) to visit; to call on
• 旁pángone side; other; different
• 妨fángto hinder; (in the negative or interrogative) (no) harm; (what) harm
• 仿fǎngto imitate; to copy
• 纺fǎngto spin (cotton or hemp etc); fine woven silk fabric

Characters that look like 枋

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 纺fǎngto spin (cotton or hemp etc); fine woven silk fabric
• 挡dǎngto resist; to obstruct; to hinder
• 肪fánganimal fat
• 坊fānglane (usually as part of a street name); memorial archway
• 枯kū(of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up; (bound form) dull; boring
• 彷pángused in 彷徨

Sounds the same

Read fāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 方square; power or involution (math.); upright
• 芳fragrant
• 坊lane (usually as part of a street name); memorial archway
• 邡used in 什邡
• 钫francium (chemistry)
• 匚"right open box" radical (Kangxi radical 22), occurring in 区, 医, 匹 etc
• 淓name of a river
• 蚄used in 虸蚄